BlackBerry Q5 launched in India at Rs 24,990

Canadian phone maker BlackBerry today launched the Q5 smartphone in India, bringing its latest handset in the country. This smartphone is aimed at emerging markets and has been priced at Rs 24,990. It is the third BB10-powered phone to be launched in India, after the exorbitantly priced Z10 and Q10 smartphones. BlackBerry Q5 has 3.1-inch...

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TCS beats Infosys to become India‘s most admired company

 TCS has emerged as India's most admired company ahead of Hindustan Unilever, ITC, and Infosys, says global management consultancy Hay Group.  According to the findings of the second edition of India's Most Admired Companies (IMAC) compiled by Hay Group in association with Fortune India, TCS replaced last year's winner group...

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India top destination for data theft: Report

As the country's estimated $108 billion IT services industry is becoming the world's favoured outsourcing centre, India is emerging as a popular destination for cyber data theft and may witness growing activity of hackers, says a latest report. "Data theft is one of the biggest risks posed before the companies in the banking sector....

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Buyer‘s guide: Good tablet within Rs 25,000

I want to buy a tablet within Rs 25,000. Could you please suggest a few options? —Rahil Bhandari, Ashok Tandel, Vicky Jain  In your budget, you can pick up a 16GB iPad Mini (Wi-Fi , 7.9-inch screen) for Rs 21,900, or you could get an iPad 2 (Wi-Fi , 9.5-inch screen) for 24,500. Both Apple devices run the proprietary iOS operating...

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HTC Butterfly S goes official on India website

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC has listed its Butterfly S smartphone on its India website. The phone was globally announced last month and features technologies that were showcased earlier in its flagship handset HTC One. The company has not revealed the price of the phone, along with an official launch date. The listing of the phone in...

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Rovio announces Angry Birds: Star Wars II

Finnish mobile game maker Rovio has announced a new addition to its Angry Birds franchise. The company announced the new game via a blog post and said that it will hit app stores on September 19. This new game, titled Angry Birds: Star Wars II, is the sixth game to be published under the franchise, which also consists of the spin-off...

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Nokia bets big in Indian app developers

Nokia said it would continue to offer relevant innovations to the 18-24-year-old consumers at affordable price points to maintain momentum in the smartphone category. Launching Nokia Asha 501, the new generation of smartphones to run on Asha Platform, Viral Oza, Director Marketing, Nokia India said the digital consumer would get a...

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‘World‘s most advanced computer dumber than a five-year old‘

One of the world's best artificial intelligence computers is only as smart as a four year old human child, a new study suggests.  Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is.  It turned out that the computer...

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Windows XP users urged to upgrade OS

Indian cybersecurity sleuths have issued an alert for those using the popular 'Window XP' as operating system in their computers and laptops and advised "immediate" upgrade of software against hacking attempts.  Software giant Microsoft had announced that it is going to stop support services to 'Windows XP' OS from April 8 next...

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Phones that will ‘self-destruct’ under development

Imagine this: There's no need to throw out your old cellphone, because it will self-destruct. That's the idea behind a project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where researchers are investigating how to build electronics that vanish in water.  John Rogers is a professor of Materials Science and...

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Driverless cars‘ trails to begin in UK

The first ever trial of self-driving cars on Britain's busy roads will take place later this year. Researchers from the Oxford University have been working with Japanese multinational automaker Nissan on the technology and have already tested a car on a private road in a science park. However, permission has now been granted by...

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Yahoo gets midas touch back, courtesy CEO Mayer

Not much had been going right for Yahoo until it lured Marissa Mayer away from Google to become its CEO last summer. The move is shaping up as the best thing to happen to Yahoo since 2005 when it invested $1 billion in what was then a little-known internet company in China, Alibaba. Mayer's magnetism and Alibaba's prosperity are now...

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